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Delta 98 Den Haag selling on eBay.com

some of the items, recently sold on eBay.com

by Delta 98 Den Haag,

The Hague, The Netherlands

- sold to a
collector in the USA –

a vintage
35 mm rangefinder camera, the

Leica III f

made
1953-1954, by: Ernst Leitz Wetzlar, Germany

with
a collapsible, screw mount lens: Leitz Elmar f=5 cm 1:3,5

and
a Leica leather case

- sold to a French
collection –

Papua
Oceania tribal art, a

Harpoon
Head made by the Asmat
People

of
Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia

the
point is of bone with carved flukes

and
on the revers it has 10 small notches carved into the bone

the
rattan holds a wooden / bamboo socket in the hollow part of the bone

- were
the long throwing haft would be put in -

and
it has it's original rattan / cane loop to attache the fisherman's rope,

see
the collection of the Museum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, The Netherlands,

search:
harpoenpunt asmat

- now in a collection in Romania –

a small, circa 1800

antique Russian
Orthodox traveling Icon

with silver cover - oklad

depicting The Holy Mother Mary
and The Child Jesus Christ

- sold to a buyer in the USA –

a rare, because early,
executed between 1900 and 1910,
and therefor also an extremely beautiful modelled specimen, executed with great
detail, a moving porcelain figure of an

Albino Monkey

that is looking at an
insect on it's hand, whether to see it as an enemy or friend.

This story is never told when
you find sales of this piece of Heubach.

An albino monkey, not welcom
in his group, because of his strange, white color, so often very lonely. Now an
other creature has approached him and

there is a touch, a feel, a
contact, perhaps a friend....

made by Gebrüder Heubach, from Lichte, Thuringen, Germany,

this mark was used between 1900 and
1925

we would say it is an early
figurine, probably between 1900-1910, because of it's wonderful and
precise details, for example the detailed modeling of the skull, fur, fingers,
toes, nails and the slight, delicat colouring of ears and mouth

length: circa 18,5 cm / 7.3 inch

- sold to a buyer
from Brazil -

a
rare and large, authentic art nouveau / jugendstil period

Jardinière

decorated
with a maiden reaching out and flowers,

executed
and marked between 1880 and 1914, by

AK
& Cie - Albert Kohler und Cie, Vienna, Austria.

In
1900 WMF took over AK & Cie,
but continued to use the name AK & Cie until 1914.

length:
54,5 cm / 21.4 inch, height: 31,5 cm / 12.4 inch

tribal art from Melanesia - Oceania, a good and old etnografic object, formed as a shield like totem,known as a

Gope Board

and as Ancestor / Spirit board or Kwoi / Hohao,

and sometimes spelled as Go-pay or Kope,

from the region of the Sepik River, on Papua New Guinea

made of a soft wood, carved with stone tools, slightly hollow shaped

with a high relief, curvilineer decoration organised around a fractionated human like face in a mass of meandering lines

it represents a member of the Lau-haere, the Historical People, meaning mythological personages who hunt the bush

with pigment of natural colors, red black and white, through the years the red has darkened, the white has fainted

- sold to a private collection in Texas, USA -

a carved, gilded and painted wooden case, with glass side panels and a wax doll, a late Baroque, early 18th century shrine with the Child Jesus

this religious shrine might have been made in a monastery or convent in Europe

and is sometimes refered to as

religious folkart, Klosterwerk, monastery or convent work.

- sold to a private collection on Malta -

a carved wooden figure of a standing female, an altar or ancestor figure,